I hastened to add by way of pleasantry, that my friend Ashton, who was standing beside me, and I had not an apron as yet.

"Well," he replied promptly, "you have gotten beyond that." They take pleasure in telling a good story also.

As Ashton and I were travelling one afternoon to San Rafael we were joined on the Saucelito ferry boat by a benevolent gentleman, named Ingram, who said he was a cousin of the Bishop of London.

As we talked over various matters he finally said, "I will tell you a story.

An Irishman landed in New York after a stormy voyage; and as he walked up Broadway he thought that he would go into the first place he saw, which looked like a Roman Catholic church, and there offer thanks for his safe journey.